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| - I'm conflicted about City Cafe. Let me say this at the outset: the food was delicious, and not the standard breakfast fare. (All vegetarian, which we didn't realize when we entered but made my vegetarian wife very happy.) I had huevos rancheros: fried eggs over pinto beans, onions and spicy potatoes. Wife had great Irish omelet, and friend had Mexican omelet. Fair warning: all meals were quite spicy with a generous dusting of cayenne, even on the Irish omelet. But all delish, different and prepared with care.
Now, the warnings. We entered carrying Starbucks from our hotel coffeemaker. That set off the idiosyncratic proprietor, who went on a long rant about Starbucks causing the downfall of civilization by convincing people to drink from paper cups. Even brought mugs over and insisted we transfer our coffee to them.
The service was not anywhere close to fast. Don't know if this is always the case, but the owner was the only one working. The place wasn't busy, but he didn't acknowledge our presence for 10 minutes or so. A couple people came and went without having orders taken. All told, we were there about 30-40 minutes before getting our food, which again was delicious.
I expect that if the service doesn't improve, City Cafe won't be around much longer.
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